Missile for toy guns



Oct. 18, 1,927,

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MIssILE FoRl'roY Guns Filed April 7. 1927 Patented Cet. 18, 1927.

UNITED STATES WILLIAM A. TIDWELL, F INDIANAPOLIS, INDIAN.

HISSILE FOB TOY GUNS.

Application led A'pril 7, 1927. Serial No. 181,653.

This invention relates to a missile to be projected from a toy gun, and in particular to such a missile in the form of a rubber ball with an elastic string attached thereto,

described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. l, is a side elevation of the ball; and

Fig. 2, a sectional view on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts in the two views.

The ball 5 is made preferably of sponge rubber in order that it may have sufiicient weight to enable it to be projected for quite a distance, but to give it suicient resiliency so that any object being struck by it will not be damaged as it might be were the ball solid rubber.

" A hole is punched through the ball 5 on a diameter and the rubber string 6 is pulled through the hole from one side of the ball to have the knot or button 7 come through the hole and bear against the other side of the ball to resist the pulling-of the string back through the hole.

The string 6 is molded in one piece with the button 7 integral on the one end and an eye or loop 8 molded in the other end, the string itself being circular in cross section.

Hollow rubber' balls have been employed heretofore with a string much smaller in diameter than the string 6 attached thereto by punching two holes closel together in one side of the ball, passing t e end of the string in one hole and out the other and then tying the end back onto the string itself.

Such an attachment is not satisfactory since the thin wall of the ball will tear out or the string break or become untied as it is ex- 40 tremely diilicult to tie a rubber string with any degree of permanence. Moreover, the string to be attaced in the heretofore manner necessarily had to be small in diameter to be so tied, and the string by reason of such small diameter could not be stretched suiiiciently to impart suiiicient initial velocity to the ball to project it to any appreciable distance.

By the method ofl attachment I employ,

I can use the string 6 having a comparatively large diameter so that it does not have to be stretched out so far as the heretofore smaller string to give the same impetus to the ball, and there is no knot to become untied. Vhile the button 7 by itself back on the gun at some point suitable for quick release. The string 6l can of course be molded integrally by one end to the ball 5.

I claim: l. A rubber ball, an elastic string, said string being passed entirely through the ball by one end, and a button on said end to contact the ball said ball being formed of sponge rubber and gripping said string t roughout its length through the ball.

2. missile comprising a rubber ball, an elastic string of comparativel large diameter, a button on one end of the string, and a loop on the other end of the string, said string being attached to the ball by being pulled by the button end through a relatively small hole through the ball from one side to permit the button to bear a ainst the ball from the other side of the ba l and said ball being formed of sponge rubber and compressively ripping that ortion of the string passed t rough the baql.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature.

WILLIAM A. TIDWELL. 

